Women with premenstrual syndrome reported big improvements in their symptoms after taking placebo pills, despite knowing they ...

New research found that taking a placebo pill, knowing that it contains no active ingredients, reduced the intensity of ...

Women affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS) appear to experience less intense and debilitating symptoms after taking ...

That’s the potential promise of a new study on a drug made by Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi. At a scientific ...

Catarina Craveiro, a biomedical research technician from Lisbon, had been hobbled by lower back pain from scoliosis since ...

A placebo is often thought of in terms of a sugar pill but it essentially refers to any treatment or intervention that in itself has no biological effect - e.g. a saline injection or even ...

The "placebo effect" is a phenomenon that occurs when a person’s physical or mental health improves after taking what is essentially a sham treatment with no clear therapeutic benefits.

The act of taking a pill placebo may enhance the placebo effect already contained in the effective psychotherapeutic intervention during the acute phase treatment. There may be some further room ...